Re: [PATCH 0/4] sparsemem intro patches

From: Pavel Machek
Date: Mon Mar 28 2005 - 17:25:49 EST


Hi!

> > > Three of these are i386-only, but one of them reorganizes the macros
> > > used to manage the space in page->flags, and will affect all platforms.
> > > There are analogous patches to the i386 ones for ppc64, ia64, and
> > > x86_64, but those will be submitted by the normal arch maintainers.
> > >
> > > The combination of the four patches has been test-booted on a variety of
> > > i386 hardware, and compiled for ppc64, i386, and x86-64 with about 17
> > > different .configs. It's also been runtime-tested on ia64 configs (with
> > > more patches on top).
> >
> > Could you try swsusp on i386, too?
>
> Runtime, or just compiling?
>
> Have you noticed a real problem?

I'd prefer runtime, but.... No, I did not notice anything, but in past
we have some "interesting" problems with discontigmem... and this
looks similar.
Pavel
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